Sweet Auburn, including the “richest Negro street in the world” at the time, was bisected to build the Downtown Connector.
Lightning was bulldozed to build the Georgia World Congress Center and the Georgia Dome.
Buttermilk Bottom was bulldozed to build the Civic Center.
(To be fair, Atlanta also razed at least one white neighborhood, too. Copenhill was destroyed to make room for the I-485/GA 400 interchange, which was never built due to the Freeway Revolts and eventually became Freedom Parkway and the Carter Center instead.)
In Atlanta, this happened in several places:
(To be fair, Atlanta also razed at least one white neighborhood, too. Copenhill was destroyed to make room for the I-485/GA 400 interchange, which was never built due to the Freeway Revolts and eventually became Freedom Parkway and the Carter Center instead.)